Magazine Layouts Full disclosure: This project is how I hook students into designing and sometimes writing for a student publication. We start with finding an article that inspires some imagery that a student can find in the school or home environment for a digital...
Photoshop Portrait Paintings After students have practiced techniques for creating pattern fills, matching colors, and using brushstrokes in Photoshop, we put skills into practice to create a portrait painting. Students use a photograph of someone whom they respect as...
Surrealist / Emotive Collages After students have built familiarity with selection techniques and collage tools in Photoshop, we launch into more expressive designs. Using surrealism as a launching point, we start to target our techniques towards the goal of...
Exploring Negative Space Students begin with viewing plenty of examples, then sketching ideas for a design that will clearly show relationships between positive and negative space in a defined format. This exercise serves as an introduction to drawing shapes in...
Action! As students learn more tools and techniques in Photoshop, I want them to be inspired to take risks and explore new applications. For this project, each student brings in a photograph of himself in action—and then we learn how to apply Photoshop actions to the...